hitachi san on aix 5l

[alexia32]

Hi,

Do you know if we have to install a driver on aix to recognise the san disks Hitachi ?

like for ibm SAN we need to install sdd driver or EMC san we need to install powerpath etc...

Thanks in advance
Cheers
A.

 

[p5wizard]

If you are current with AIX, you can use the native MPIO driver (MultiPathIO). But that driver, with the standard AIX PCM (PathControlModule) only provides failover, no load balancing.

Check the Hitachi website to see if they provide a specifically designed PCM for MPIO that will provide both load balancing and path-failover.

Failing that, perhaps they provide a non-MPIO multipath solution for AIX?


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[mrn]

For load balancing take a look at (Hitachi Dynamic Load Manager) HDLM from Hitachi, it's not cheap.

we're currently using the native AIX driver

devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte on 5.3 ML4

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[p5wizard]

Mike, you mean first you shell out Mega$ to buy an Hitachi SAN server, then to start using it with all the SAN features like load balancing, path failover, PCI hotplug support, ... you have to shell out some more and buy their software. Don't tell me: it is licensed per CPU, per server?

I can only say: SDD and/or SDDPCM come free of charge for DS6k or DS8k customers (was also the case for ESS), and I believe RDAC driver is included in the DS4k package also...


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[mrn]

That's about the size of it, last time I asked it was around £20,000 ($40,000)

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[trisco]

Check out the thread
thread629-1030536
in the Hitachi Data Systems Disk & Raid Solution forum, of which you posted this same question.